Peter George

The boy who lived couldn't quite survive HuffPost Entertainment's Ultimate Fan Face-Off. It was a close race, but 'Star Wars' bested the 'Harry Potter' franchise with 53 percent of the vote. Meanwhile, Frodo Baggins and his One Ring defeated 007 'James Bond' to go head-to-head against Luke Skywalker in the finals. Although, it won't be an easy task for Frodo and the gang. In fact, it may be tougher than crossing the mountains of Mordor. 'Star Wars' celebrated its 35th anniversary last week, and something tells us that its dedicated fandom isn't going to let Han Solo, Princess Leia and (especially) Chewie down now. 'Set aside the sheer whiz-bang factor of cool spaceships zipping around shooting lasers at each other,' writes Graham Milne, a blogger and life-long 'Star Wars' fan (he watched it in beta), for The Huffington Post. 'For a quiet, lonely kid who grew up looking at the stars and dreaming, Star Wars was that dream given shape -- the idea that from the humblest beginnings could arise an adventure to span the galaxy.' 'Lord of the Rings' fans may not have The Force on their side, but they do have Gandalf -- and J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy epic -- in their corner. Peter Jackson's fantasy trilogy that transcended the genre; it was more than just another fantasy flick. You shall not pass, Skywalker. All this without mention of 'The Hobbit,' which is set for a December 2012 release. Hopefully, Jackson's highly-anticipated 'Hobbit' is received better than George Lucas' 'Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.' Take a look at the bracket below (in case you need a refresher, hover over the movie posters for a brief summary of the series), then make your picks in the poll that follows.It's that easy. Then check back to see how your fellow entertainment junkies voted. Warning: This could potentially ruin your Internet fr

Taken in by a kindly couple, a six-inch-tall boy takes on a pair of comical crooks in this adaption of a classic Grimm fairy tale. Oscar and Golden Globe-winner Russ Tamblyn ('Peyton Place') and Oscar-nominee and Golden Globe-winner Peter Sellers ('The Pink Panther') star in this enjoyable fantasy. Terry-Thomas ('It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World') received a British Academy Award nomination for his hilarious performance as a bungling villain. Great Oscar-winning special effects that combine live actors, animation and puppets. Directed by legendary Oscar-honoree George Pal ('Puppetoons' shorts). Featuring songs by Oscar and Emmy-nominee Peggy Lee. Film critic Leonard Maltin writes 'Excellent children's picture...' and awards it 3-1/2 stars!

Conceived by producer Dino De Laurentiis, THE BIBLE dramatizes the first 22 chapters of Genesis in the Old Testament. Legendary director John Huston lends his talents to create a movie of epic proportions. Shot in sumptuous 70mm, the film is as visually rich as the story it tells. Presented in an episodic narrative, the story starts at the beginning, with Adam and Eve, played by Michael Parks and Ulla Bergyd, respectively. Their tragic story leads to Cain and Abel, which is followed by the story of Noah, who is portrayed by the director himself. The Tower of Babel is next, followed by the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. George C. Scott plays the beleaguered Abraham, and Ava Gardner stars as his wife, Sarah. In the end, Sarah is visited by the three angels of God, as portrayed by Peter O'Toole.

Starring Peter Frampton and The Bee Gees along with Steve Martin, George Burns, Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Billy Preston and Earth, Wind and Fire performing almost two dozen incredible Beatles covers, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is a landmark of pop culture and an all-star musical spectacular for fans of all ages.

The man with the patch is back. Call him Snake. Kurt Russell rejoins filmmakers John Carpenter and Debra Hill to do to the Big Orange what they did to the Big Apple in Escape From New York - with even more futuristic thrills and slam-bang action! Into the 9.6-quaked Los Angeles of 2013 comes Snake Plissken (Russell). His job: wade through L.A.'s ruined landmarks to retrieve a doomsday device. Don't miss the excitement as Snake surfs Wilshire Blvd., shoots hoops at the Coliseum, dive bombs the Happy Kingdom theme park, and mixes it up with a wild assortment of friends, fiends and foes (Stacy Keach, Steve Buscemi, Peter Fonda, George Corraface, Cliff Robertson, Pam Grier and more). Escape From L.A. is a 'go-for-broke action extravaganza!' (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times).

Through a series of military and political accidents, a pair of psychotic senior military officers -- U.S. Air Force Commander Jack D. Ripper ( STERLING HAYDEN) and Joint Chiefs of Staff General 'Buck' Turgidson (GEORGE C. SCOTT) hatch an ingenious, foolproof, and irrevocable plan to unleash a wing of B-52 bombers and their nuclear payloads on strategic targets inside Russia. And when the brains behind the scheme, Dr. Strangelove (PETER SELLERS), a wheelchair-bound nuclear scientist with bizarre ideas about man's future, accidentally activates the bombing mission, the President of the United States (PETER SELLERS) is unable to stop it.Although he knows the secret code to stop the mission, the Royal Air Force's Group Captain Mandrake (PETER SELLERS) isn't much help since he's come under attack at a U.S. Air Force base by a group of U.S. paratroopers who've been accidentally activated, too. So, despite all efforts to recall him, Major T. J. 'King' Kong (SLIM PICKENS) personally sees his bombing mission to its fateful conclusion, even as the Russian Ambassador (PETER BULL) is summoned to the White House in hopes of averting a crisis and preventing the activation of the 'Doomsday' machine. But the inevitable comes to pass as the efforts of the Pentagon brass and all the politicians in Moscow and Washington cannot undo the cascading series of cataclysmic events.

The evil is back. The Exorcist novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter William Peter Blatty triumphs again with this spellbinding sequel starring George C. Scott.Year: 1990. From Oscar-winning writer William Peter Blatty comes this long-anticipated follow-up to his Oscar and Golden Globe-winning horror classic, 'The Exorcist.' Oscar, Emmy and Golden Globe-winner George C. Scott ('Patton,' 'Rage') is a haunted homicide detective who is confronted by the apparent return of a brutal serial killer he helped send to the electric chair fifteen years earlier -- on the same day as the exorcism that killed his friend, Father Damien. Part detective story, part theological mystery, and an unforgettable study in terror. Co-starring two-time Emmy-winner Ed Flanders (TV's 'St. Elsewhere'), Oscar-nominee Jason Miller ('The Exorcist') and Oscar-nominee and Golden Globe-winner Brad Dourif ('One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest').

Swinging With The Finkels is the story of what happens after the honeymoon ends and couples get bored with married life. Having met in college, American born Ellie (MANDY MOORE) and her husband Alvin (MARTIN FREEMAN), are several years into their marriage. The heady sparks of lust and fun have sadly faded and they're left with the day to day normality of their everyday life. Advised by best friends Peter (JONATHAN SILVERMAN) and Janet (MELISSA GEORGE), who are having their own marital problems, Ellie and Alvin are desperate to 'spice things up'. Ellie hits upon the brilliant idea to mix things up with another couple - to have a 'consensual affair' within the confines of the marriage. Our couple embark on finding the ideal couple and begin to interview a plethora of perverse and quirky swingers. They finally settle on what seem to be the perfect couple and a night of insanity and hilarity follow.

1957. The Latin Quarter, Paris. A cheap no-name hotel became a haven for a new breed of artists fleeing the conformity and censorship of America. The hotel soon turned into an epicenter of Beat writing that produced some of the most important works of the Beat generation. It came to be known as the Beat Hotel. Alan Govenar s feature documentary The Beat Hotel explores this amazing place and time. Fleeing the obscenity trials surrounding the publication of his seminal poem Howl, Allen Ginsberg, along with Peter Orlovsky and Gregory Corso, happened upon the hotel on rue Git le Coeur and were soon joined by William Burroughs, Ian Somerville, and Brion Gysin. Run by the indefatigable Madame Rachou, the Beat Hotel was a hotbed of creativity and permissiveness, where Burroughs and Gysin developed the cut-up writing method; Burroughs finished his controversial book Naked Lunch; Ginsberg began his poem Kaddish; Somerville and Gysin invented the Dream Machine; Corso wrote some of his greatest poems; and Harold Norse, in his own cut-up experiments, wrote a novella, aptly called The Beat Hotel. British photographer Harold Chapman s iconic photos and Scottish artist Elliot Rudie s animated drawings, interwoven with the firsthand accounts of French artists Jean-Jacques Lebel, British book dealer Cyclops Lester, and 95 year old George Whitman, capture the Beats just as they were beginning to establish themselves on the international scene and bring The Beat Hotel to life on the screen.

A surreal comedy about a man who finds he can't seem to stop leaking sand, Swiss director Peter Luisi's The Sandman is absurdist and whimsical, but with a genuine edge provided by its not entirely likable hero. Benno (Fabian Kr ger) is kind of a jerk. He works at a philatelist store, buying stamp collections on the cheap from people who don't know that Uncle George's hobby was worth thousands, steals from his boss, bullies his co-worker and lies to his girlfriend. And he hates his downstairs neighbour, Sandra (Irene Br gger) a young barista with dreams of a musical future whose singing drives him to fits of bad behaviour. Then one day Benno begins to notice that he is, somehow, leaving sandy deposits everywhere he goes. Doctors and friends assure him it is all in his mind, but nonetheless, Benno is leaking, and it's getting worse every day. Luisi takes this amusing, allegorical premise and runs with it, pushing the narrative into new areas as Benno discovers his sand has seemingly magical powers. Luisi's latest comic tale, a story of redemption and dreams with a sting in its tale, looks to be his international breakout.

George Smiley (Gary Oldman) asks Peter (Benedict Cumberbatch) to do him a secret favor.

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is the long-awaited feature film version of John le Carre’s classic bestselling novel. The thriller is directed by Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In). The screenplay adaptation is by the writing team of Bridget O'Connor & Peter Straughan. The time is 1973. The Cold War of the mid-20th Century continues to damage international relations. Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), a.k.a. MI6 and code-named the Circus, is striving to keep pace with other countries’ espionage efforts and to keep the U.K. secure. The head of the Circus, known as Control (John Hurt), personally sends dedicated operative Jim Prideaux (Mark Strong) into Hungary. But Jim’s mission goes bloodily awry, and Control is forced out of the Circus - as is his top lieutenant, George Smiley (Gary Oldman), a career spy with razor-sharp senses. Estranged from his absent wife Ann, Smiley is soon called in to see undersecretary Oliver Lacon (Simon McBurney); he is to be rehired in secret at the government’s behest, as there is a gnawing fear that the Circus has long been compromised by a double agent, or mole, working for the Soviets and jeopardizing England. Supported by younger agent Peter Guillam (Benedict Cumberbatch), Smiley parses Circus activities past and present. In trying to track and identify the mole, Smiley is haunted by his decades-earlier interaction with the shadowy Russian spy master Karla. The mole's trail remains cold until maverick field agent Ricki Tarr (Tom Hardy) unexpectedly contacts Lacon. While undercover in Turkey, Ricki has fallen for a betrayed married woman, Irina (Svetlana Khodchenkova), who claims to possess crucial intelligence. Separately, Smiley learns that Control narrowed down the list of mole suspects to five men. They are the ambitious Percy Alleline (Toby Jones), whom he had code-named Tinker; suavely confident Bill Haydon (Colin Firth), dubbed Tailor; stalwart Roy Bland (Ciaran Hinds), called Soldier; officious Toby Esterhase (David Dencik), dubbed Poor Man; and - Smiley himself. Even before the startling truth is revealed, the emotional and physical tolls on the players enmeshed in the deadly international spy game will escalate.